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The Morava Trade Guilds

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We will issue royal charters to the guilds of the Morava Valley, and encourage the development of large-scale leather working, weaving, and metal finishing workshops along the river's transit points. By exempting these guilds from certain internal tolls in exchange for providing standardized equipment to the royal armies (such as saddlery for the cavalry and uniforms for the infantry) the state will create a self-sustaining domestic industry. This move will reduce the realm's dependence on expensive foreign imports from outside and create a prosperous, urban middle class that serves as a loyal counter-weight to the rural power of the nobility, significantly broadening the state's taxable economic base.

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